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As part of Halloween mischief, an ornate, brick-enclosed mailbox in a residential area of Deerfield was permanently sealed shut by a heavy-duty adhesive foam usually used to bond drywall and concrete, authorities said. No other nearby mailboxes on West St. Andrews Lane were vandalized, police said.

With "The Dark Knight" on pace to possibly overtake "Titanic" as the highest-grossing film ever, obsessive fans are dissecting the film with religious fervor. Every. Little. Detail. A few moviegoers have caught some cinematic blemishes; everything from niggling factual errors to simple continuity mistakes. Below, we've printed some of the Bat bloopers as posted on moviemistakes.com. 1) "Revealing: When the Joker gets out of the flipped-over truck and trips, the sign on the right reads 'Sweet Home Chicago' (the movie was largely filmed in Chicago)

"Dark Tours" anyone? With all the buzz accompanying "The Dark Knight," it's only a matter of time before some entrepreneur (in a plastic Batman mask, no less) will start conducting tours of Chicago as Gotham City. May we offer the following map as an alternative. "The Dark Knight" shot 65 days in Chicago, with additional studio and stunt work in Hong Kong and England. Below, a complete Chicago location list, provided by the Chicago Film Office. 1. 500 N. Franklin St. Street scene, Lamborghini driving shots 2. 100 N. Wells St. Street scene, Lamborghini driving shots 3. 200 E. Wacker Drive/Chicago River Helicopter shots of the city 4. 200 N. Post Pl. Street scene, chase sequence (Joker tries to rub out Harvey Dent.

Truth is, most of the people who came out for Friday morning's first three showings of "The Dark Knight" (midnight, 3 a.m. and 6 a.m.) at Navy Pier's IMAX theater were like 24-year-old Chris Mosley of Plano. Yeah, yeah, they dig the superhero antics of one of the most famous comic-book vigilantes. But their loyalties really lie elsewhere, and it showed. In spite of being cast as a Gotham City police officer extra when the movie was filming here last summer, Mosley's white painted face, ruby red lips and neon green hair gave it all away as he waited in line for the 3 a.m. showing.

The late Heath Ledger, who by all accounts gives a phenomenal performance as the Joker in the new Batman movie, "The Dark Knight," which opened Friday, does something a few Republicans have longed to do. He grabs Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) by the neck and threatens him with a knife. Well, maybe Republicans haven't wanted to do the knife part, but the rest stands. Leahy, who as has been widely reported is a huge Batman fan, has a cameo role as a brave older gentleman who confronts the Joker after the evildoer crashes a swank party.

Just when you think "Batman: The Dark Knight" can't get darker -- or more twisted -- director Christopher Nolan takes the audience deeper into the abyss. "What doesn't kill you makes you stranger," muses The Joker, the film's maniacal villain with a cracked, painted-on clown smile that covers his facial scars. The line, which occurs early in the film doesn't just apply to the psycho bad guy, though, but, as we learn, to Batman himself. "It was a question of how to follow on from 'Batman Begins' with this idea of escalation," says Nolan, who also co-wrote "Dark Knight."

Best superhero movie ever also best movie of the year The Dark Knight (PG-13) !!!! Gotham City has become a little more stable thanks to new District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart). Bruce Wayne/Batman (Christian Bale) respects the D.A., despite wishing Dent wouldn't date his oldest friend/almost flame Rachel (Maggie Gyllenhaal). Mob activity and police corruption persist, however, and the city explodes into violence and terror at the whim of a slithery, mysterious killer known as The Joker (Heath Ledger)

'THE DARK KNIGHT' . . Sensational, grandly sinister and not for the kids, "The Dark Knight" elevates pulp to a very high level. Heath Ledger's Joker takes it higher still, and the 28-year-old actor's death earlier this year of an accidental overdose lends the film an air of a funeral and a rollicking, out-of-control wake mixed together. In "The Dark Knight," Ledger makes all other comic book screen villains look like Baby Huey. Like Shakespeare's Iago or Richard III, like Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter or Javier Bardem's implacable murderer in "No Country For Old Men," this is no Method maniac, asking or telling anyone about his character's motivation.

Christian Bale (left) doesn't mince words when talking about his "Dark Knight" co-star Heath Ledger. When "Today" show interviewer Matt Lauer asked Bale on Monday to address suggestions that Ledger's death in January was connected to his dark role as The Joker in the film, Bale said the notion demonstrates a "complete lack of understanding of acting." The man behind the Batman mask also said he "found it very rude" that some people, in his opinion, tried "to create some kind of a sound bite for such a tragedy."

With the nationwide premiere of "The Dark Knight" still four days away, Heath Ledger's Oscar buzz continues to sizzle, thanks to his unique take on The Joker. All forces seem to be slowly aligning in his favor--even The Force. "Star Wars" star Mark Hamill tells the Tribune that the Academy will honor Ledger's performance with a golden statue. "I'll predict right now: He'll win the [supporting-actor] Oscar," says Hamill, who besides playing Luke Skywalker also has voiced The Joker in several TV projects including "Batman: The Animated Series" in the '90s.